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Nickname:	Miska
Known for:	Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Birth name:	Manó Kertész Kaminer
Birthday:	24 December 1886, Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)

Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA., in the Whispering Pines section. Brother of assistant director David Curtiz. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 172-181. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. Could be intensely absorbed, to the point of distraction. Once was hurt falling out of a moving car because he wanted to write down an idea. He was driving at the time. His thick Hungarian accent often made it difficult for cast and crew members to understand his English. Durring the filming of Casablanca, for instance, he asked a set dresser for a "poodle" and later it was discovered than, in fact, he wanted a "poodle" of water! Directed 10 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Paul Muni, John Garfield, James Cagney, Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Eve Arden and William Powell. Cagney and Crawford won Oscars for their performances in one of Curtiz' movies. Jodie Foster used to own a home that Curtiz built in 1934. The house was originally a guest house on the large estate that he owned. It is copied from small quaint Cotswold cottages found in the midlands in England. In 1995 she put the home up for sale for $1.1 million. Fought in the Hungarian army during World War I.

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